Leaving all the hard technical work completely out of the picture, I’m going to call it: “plug-n-play” email. A premium account will also allow you to personalize your aliases (replace the nine-character-string with anything you want), and even give them your own subdomain (as in Having customized aliases is not necessary if you’re only using them to sign up for stuff, but they might come in handy if you’re sharing your information offline and want to seem more professional, for example.The setup file itself is only 8.5 MB in size, which should take less than a minute to download on most current internet connection speeds! Once installed, Thunderbird will immediately prompt you for your account information you’ll use with Thunderbird (GMAIL, etc.) Just like in Windows Live Mail, you can expect Thunderbird to auto-configure your settings to get you up and running with the email provider. Click the down arrow to the right of the alias box to display the Delete option, which will obliterate your alias and stop any incoming messages coming from it.Īs a free tier user, you’ll be able to keep up to five aliases simultaneously, but if you pony up $1 a month, you’ll have access to an unlimited number of aliases, and the ability to use them to reply to emails.

On the home screen, you’ll be able to label your aliases by clicking on the pencil icon above them-this is useful if you plan to use each alias for a specific purpose. As soon as you do, the system will automatically generate your first alias, which will look like a random string of nine letters and digits, followed by Firefox’s email service domain.

Using Firefox Relay is as simple as creating an account on its website or logging into it with your Firefox account.

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